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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

When I first went to collage many moons ago -- 1976 to be exact -- I started my major in Pol-Sci. I was studying under an Jordanian Christian professor ( a leftist , but not extremist), and in the company of many Mid-east students , esp from Iran.

You know, after many classes and much debate, we discoverd we agreed on most everything globally.
But of course the Middle-East is more complicated. Why ?

It became an axiom of our studies,

that both sides in the Palestine-Israel debate

have a lot of "right" on their side ,

and both sides also got a lot of "wrong" on their side.

Debating history ain't gonna solve anything.

Solutions will only come when Both sides either:

HAVE TO resolve it, as when events on the ground make the situation untenable.

OR just WANT TO resolve it.

The later seems unlikely.

But as everyone with a sane mind TODAY agrees,

that as the Palestinian population grows faster over the next 10-20 years,

the current status-quo geo-political situation

of an Occupation will become untenable.

So you can "pay me now", or "pay me later" , as the saying goes:

The Palestinians forming a peaceful Democratic state is the only peaceful solution.

Means that a Strong Intellectual Democrat with Charisma will most always beat ANY Republican anytime for POTUS. Americans like smart Dems. (JFK v Nixon: prime example. Maybe the 2 most dynamic politicians of the 20th Cent.)

Wet democrat rags like Kerry, Mondale [and as Carter became in 1980,] loose.

Humphrey & Gore, just barely lost , but again they do not quite fit the mold of being both very smart AND very charismatic, which just strengthens my point.

Obama is not Carter as much as the GOP would like to think he is, and Mitt Romney's rag is soaking up more water everyday, imho.As LBJ and Truman fell into potus , and were not first elected, i did not count them in here above>> but either way, both won re-elect.McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, Kerry they all lacked the great charisma factor, nor were they at the education / intellect level of FDR, JFK, Carter, Clinton, Obama::: Stevenson was smart had good charisma , but not great charisma , and he was against General DDE a war hero , & after 16 years of a Democrat POTUS>> Stevenson was just doomed. :: As far as Humphrey, had charisma but not a Rhodes scholar or Editor of Harvard Law Review type. And it still took a smart charismatic Nixon to beat HHH, and just barely.Obama fits the mold of "Smart AND Charismatic Democrat" 110%, while Mitt Romney is a wet GOP rag. Much like John McCain became in 2008.